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Over 5 million cultural properties - exhibits valuable in archaeological, historic, artistic, ethnic, religious, scientific, memorial and other aspects - are kept in the collections of Lithuanian museums. Lithuania has 105 museums and the majority of this number has their affiliates. Lithuania has three national museums, such as the Lithuanian National Museum, the Lithuanian Art Museum and the National Art Museum by M.K. Ciurlionis. Besides, Lithuania has plenty of municipal, county, regional, public, private, community museums, museums owned by separate institutions, over 90 galleries and exhibition halls.
2009 is the year of the Millennium Anniversary of the first mention of the name of Lithuania in historical annals. Reconstruction of the Monarchs' Palace is a step within the programme to commemorate the Millennium Anniversary of Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Monarchs' Palace in Vilnius Lower Castle was a political, administrative and cultural center of the time. Its history dates back to the 13th century. Within its ruins, archaeologists discovered the specimen of the oldest brickwork in Lithuania. Once, the Lithuanian Monarchs' Palace was famous for its rich library, well-known in all Europe, art collections and jewelry treasury. Opera was played here for the first time in the country's history. The reconstruction works of the Monarchs' Palace will be finished in 2009 - right before the Millennium Anniversary of Lithuania. The reconstructed Palace will be a center to represent Lithuanian statehood, culture and education.
Working in close cooperation with the Polish Institute and cultural institutes of other European countries and diplomatic missions functioning in Lithuania, the Lithuanian National Museum of Visual Arts has prepared and implements the programme for the presentation of the Monarchs' Palace in other European countries, which includes meetings and scientific discussions with researchers, experts and heads of museums and other cultural heritage protection institutions situated in historical residences of other states in Europe. The implementation of the programme was commenced in October 2003, by the meeting with Hellmut Lorenz, the Expert of the Restoration Project of the Royal Palace in Berlin and Professor of the History of Architecture, the University of Vienna (Austria).
The programme is due to be completed by 2008, on the eve of completion of restoration work on the Lithuanian Monarchs' Palace. The programme is of educational and scientific character. First of all, it will present a description of activities of museums and other cultural heritage institutions situated in other historical residences of European monarchs to explain to the Lithuanian public at large the sense and significance of activities of such institutions functioning in modern societies. The programme also aims to present European practices of historical functioning, restoration, full or partial reconstruction of royal, ducal and other representative residences, preparation of permanent topical expositions and temporary exhibitions, implementation of educational programmes and contemporary ways of work with visitors thereof, organization of representative events on the State level, as well as cultural and musical projects and information programmes for persons taking part in the preparation of the Lithuanian Monarchs' Palace Reconstruction Project, researchers, interior and exposition designers.
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The Vilnius Castle Complex is a group of cultural, and historic structures on the left bank of the Neris River, near its confluence with the Vilnia River, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The buildings, which evolved between the 10th and 18th centuries,...
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The KGB prison The most important part of the exhibition put on by the museum is the old NKVD/MGB/KGB prison that was established in the basement of the building in the autumn of 1940 after Lithuania‘s occupation by the Soviet Union....
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Founded in 1948, the museum is situated in Trakai Castle, a unique ensemble of fortification architecture. The construction of the Castle was begun in the second half of the 14th century and completed by Grand Duke Vytautas at the beginning...
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The National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania was founded in 2009 to collect, preserve, conserve, restore, research, interpret, and display in the restored historical residence of Vilnius Lower Castle the history and cultural...
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Open: Monday - day-off Tuesday - 12.00 - 18.00 (only winter exposition) Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday - 10.00 - 18.00 Friday, Saturday - 10.00 - 19.00
Green House at the beginning of...
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The Museum was set up in 1984 by the initiative of Bronius Kazlas. Wooden sculptures around the museum tell the history of beekeeping in Lithuania. Their creator is carver Teofilis Patiejūnas. In the museum you can learn about the protection of...
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A. Tumėno Street 4, Vilnius
Stasys Brundza Car and Transport Museum in Vilnius Gates Commercial Complex presents the greatest American car "Cadillac "collection in Europe.
"Cadillac" has always been considered one of the most...
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The Jewish Museum, as an institution concerned with Jewish culture and traditions, has a long tradition in Lithuania . The first Jewish museum was established in Vilnius (then Vilna) in 1913 through the efforts of the Society of Lovers of Jewish...
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Stocks of the museum contain 18 000 displays of different fields of technology (2007). The major part of them are monuments of the history of aviation of Lithuania. 40 flying machines are among them. After signing an agreement...
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Pazaislis Camaldolese Monastery:
• a unique baroque monument which is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of the mature baroque in northern and eastern Europe
• distinguished by the quality of its art
• established by...
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'Nothing comes out of nothing. And nothing happens by chance. This becomes very clear when I look twenty years back, to the very beginning, when I worked in Juodkrantė (Lithuania) as a photographer and came across amber deposits while wandering in...
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In 1958 in Kaunas' 9th Fort was established a museum with republic's significance. In 1959 a first exposition was prepared in four cells, about Hitlerite occupants' crimes carried out throughout Lithuania.9th Fort is a Stronghold in the northwest...
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SAMOGITIAN ART MUSEUM
Address: Parko str. 1, LT-5640 Plunge Tel. (370 294) 53833 Working hours: Wednesday-Sunday - winter 10.00-17.00 summer 10.00-19.00 Monday, Tuesday - closed Admission charges: children -...
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The first and the only museum of wax figures in the Baltic States was opened in 2009 in the very heart of the Vilnius Old Town, near the Gate of Dawn Chapel. The exposition contains more than 100 original size wax figures of various themes and...
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The Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Bicycle Museum is the only museum in Lithuania of this type. An exposition "Bicycle and Lithuania" that is displayed there presents the history and development of a bicycle. Moreover, there are the first...
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The museum contains the A. Žmuidzinavičius collection of sculptures and carvings of devils, and a collection of devils from the whole world. The collection consists of around 3000 articles of arts and crafts, fine arts and souvenirs. The biggest...
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Klaipeda Clocks Museum was opened 27 July 1984. The history of the building comes back to the 19th century. Klaipeda traders started to build their residences in the outskirts at that time. The idea of establishing Clock and Watch Museum was born...
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Rokiškis Manor House has preserved the environment of the Counts Tyzenhauz. Just like in their times, concerts of chamber music, meetings and other events are held in the house. The manor house even displays authentic clothes of the Counts,...
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V. Žilinskienė’s "Sea Museum" is a unique museum that is a long distance from the ocean, as the "Sea Museum" is located more than 300 km from the sea – in the Visitor Center of the Gražutė Regional Park. Vida Žilinskienė collected the...
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In 1559 the Frenchman Claudius Drohotius put forward a project to construct the bastions, but the project was not implemented as in 1598 Josua Putkamer and Hanns Philips Fuchs proposed a new project. However, we do not know whether this project was...
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Thomas Mann first visited Nida in 1929 after his visit in Rauschen. Recalling his visit there he wrote in his Essay of life: "We spent several days in the fishing village of Nida and we were so impressed by the inexpressible beauty and uniqueness of...
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The Palanga Amber Museum - Branch of the Lithuanian Art Museum - was established on August 3, 1963. It is housed on the estate of Count Feliksas Tiskevicius (1865-1932). The estate, designed by German architect Franc Schwechten (1841-1924), was...
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You can learn practically everything about horses here, from the roots of their existence to the structure of their bodies. Do you know how to determine the age of a horse? By looking at its teeth! The guide at the museum will kindly tell you this...
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The Mansion of Ch. Frenkelis (1857–1920), the owner of a tannery in Šiauliai, was built in 1908. Ch. Frenkelis Villa is the only architectural monument in Šiauliai and one of only a few in Lithuania built in the Art Noveau (Modern, Secession,...
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The museum was founded in 1921 by the general Vladas Nagevičius (1881–1954), who became its director. The museum was founded in 1921 in a wooden manage of the Cossack regiment of the Don and is one of the oldest museums in Lithuania. The...
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